Gotthardt Graupner

Gotthardt Graupner (born January 17, 1920 in Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. , † January 11, 1993 ibid) was a German politician ( CDU ). He was first chairman of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district committee of the CDU.

Life

Graupner, son of a postal worker, attended elementary and business school . He then worked as a legal clerk and was drafted into the Reich Labor Service . On July 1, 1940, he joined the NSDAP . During the Second World War he did military service in the 446 Infantry Regiment, most recently as an upper rifleman . He was discharged from the Wehrmacht in 1943 and saw the end of the war in May 1945 in the unoccupied Schwarzenberg .

After the entry of the Red Army in June 1945, he became a member of an Antifa committee and on May 1, 1946, he joined the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Just a few weeks later, he was elected as a young member of the Schwarzenberg city council in the municipal elections. When the previous CDU local chairman Magnus Dedek became mayor of Schwarzenberg in May 1947 , he took his place as CDU local group chairman and city councilor. He applied as a new teacher as early as 1945 , passed the teacher examination in 1948 and was a teacher at the Ernst Schneller School in Schwarzenberg until 1950. During this time he was also a co-founder of the Free German Youth .

From 1950 to 1956 he was district councilor and deputy district administrator of the Aue district (again successor to Magnus Dedek). From 1952 to 1956 he worked as chairman of the CDU district committee in Aue. Between 1956 and 1963 Graupner acted as first chairman of the CDU district executive in Karl-Marx-Stadt. From 1958 to 1963 he was a member of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district assembly and a successor candidate from October 1958 (9th party congress) and then from June 1960 (10th party congress) to October 1964 (11th party congress) a member of the main board of the CDU. He completed a distance learning course at the “Walter Ulbricht” administration academy .

From 1962 to 1979 Graupner was first active as a city councilor for housing, then also as deputy mayor of Karl-Marx-Stadt. Graupner received a disability pension in 1979.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1959) and in silver (1979)
• Ernst Moritz Arndt Medal (1959)
• Otto Nuschke Medal of Honor in Silver (1979)

literature

• Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 113.
• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . Part II. Arani-Verlag, Berlin-Grunewald 1965, p. 97.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 241.
• Olaf Kappelt : Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR . 2nd Edition. Berlin historica, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-939929-12-3 , p. 339.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Family tree of the Graupner clan, Erzgebirge
2. ↑ Contemporary witness report by Gotthardt Graupner in: Neue Zeit , July 27, 1989, p. 3.
3. ^ Neue Zeit , May 22, 1968, p. 2.